I really did some arm-twisting about a year ago... Knowing noting about Ant, I wrote this Makefile to handle all the various tasks (or targets). Given all the built in tasks from Ant could have made things easier. I wonder if there's any tool/utility which can convert Makfiles to Ant build scripts? Assuming there are none, I have some questions that I will keep on adding to this post as they come up. Thanks in advance for you assistance and guidance and comments. This is a target from the Makefile: ALL_SERVERS = UnixServ1 UnixServ2 UnixServ3 UnixServ4 install2prod: test $$(whoami) = "ops" # You must be ops to do the install @echo installing p
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I really did some arm-twisting about a year ago...

Knowing noting about Ant, I wrote this Makefile to handle all the various tasks (or targets). Given all the built in tasks from Ant could have made things easier. I wonder if there's any tool/utility which can convert Makfiles to Ant build scripts?

Assuming there are none, I have some questions that I will keep on adding to this post as they come up. Thanks in advance for you assistance and guidance and comments.

Sounds interesting. I haven't worked much with Ant but I get the impression that it is not exactly intended as a complete "Make replacement". Rather, they overlap in some common functionalities, but Ant is not intended as a general purpose scripting language, right? so there will be still things that you want to use Make for (especially for your looping, and for your remsh and rpc), and things you want to use Ant for, and perhaps you might even want to write your Makefile to invoke Ant sometimes, when appropriate?